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Valley Falls, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Warner Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97630. The Survey maps it on the Valley Falls quadrangle. It stands 4,327 feet above sea level.

Valley Falls within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Valley Falls between 1994 and 2020, burning about 878 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBOWERS 1 396
9 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCHANDLER 393
29 September 1997Other causes5.0 acresLake UnitWEEKLY
2 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution70 acresLakeview DistrictGRANGE
29 August 2017Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictVALLEY FALLS
25 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresLakeview DistrictFALLS
23 August 1999Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictCANTEEN
17 August 2016Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresLakeview DistrictVALLEY FALLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Valley Falls: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lake AbertStonePast Producer
Lake Abert PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Falls in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018HailValley Falls-A member of the public posted a picture of his hand holding 1.0 inch hail. He said the hail broke his bedroom window. The picture was posted at 25/1514 PDT, but the time of the incident was determined by radar data.

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Chewaucan (historical)17.6 miles12
Paisley20.1 miles12
Plush20.7 miles10
Lakeview20.7 miles10
Five Corners22.1 miles10
Hot Springs (historical)26.1 miles11
West Side27.9 miles10
Drews Valley (historical)28.1 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Valley FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912036The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1128496. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.